David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street is reviewed as an uneven but intermittently entertaining dinosaur thriller, with Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor leading a suburban family caught in prehistoric chaos. The critic finds that the film leans heavily on 1980s Amblin and Spielberg-style adventure nostalgia without establishing a distinctive identity, and that its digital effects are less persuasive than the practical horror techniques Mitchell used in It Follows.

Set at a 1982 suburban block party, the story centres on frustrated mother Denise Platt and her secretly unemployed husband Greg, alongside their science-minded daughter Audrey and anxious son Brian. Hathaway is considered underused, while the film’s comedy and familiar children-on-bikes adventure references produce both intended and unintended laughs; it is rated PG-13, runs for 100 minutes and opens on 14 August.